BRKG Tractor Supply supports LBTGQRS
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Lol! Precisely what I thought.
mudlogger
Veteran Member
Patara of Appalachia's Homestead called TS headquarters today, and the Tranner Banner had nothing to do with whatever TS was doing. It was taken down.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBwMXcoQGAU&t=514s
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What I read was that whatever community building the event was held at sold advertising space for local businesses to hang their banner year round. The banner is there day in and day out. Said community building rented the space to the LBQXYZ. If that is true, Tractor Supply did not knowingly advertise at this event. It may be a moot point because I haven't walked into a TS in a few years that had more than a handful of customers and I have had my gripes about them too but, if what I heard was true, they aren't really guilty.
patriotgal
Veteran Member
It is probably safe to assume that all of the major corporations support left leaning ideology. Whenever I spend money, I trust God to direct it wherever He wants it to go.
hiwall
Has No Life - Lives on TB
What patriotgal says is obviously true. If it is a nation-wide corporation then it likely follows whatever the Dem party says. I'm sure there are a few exceptions but not too many. Hobby Lobby comes to mind.
Where is everyone going to shop?
Your local stores buy much of their stuff from large corporations because I don't see how they have any choice. So yes, you can put a middleman in there so you can feel better.
Everyone here sure seems to love Amazon. Who could be worse than they are?
Where is everyone going to shop?
Your local stores buy much of their stuff from large corporations because I don't see how they have any choice. So yes, you can put a middleman in there so you can feel better.
Everyone here sure seems to love Amazon. Who could be worse than they are?
usmcpackrat
Veteran Member
A rural king opened up a half hour from me several years ago.
Once that happened, rural king took 99.5% of my business from TSC.
I buy very little from them now.
If I look at my average expenditures in the "farm and fleet" stores, it's roughly 20k annually.
(RK has a gun barn and good prices on freedom seeds.)
Looks like I don't have to step foot into TSC for any reason whatsoever.
Besides look at these prices.......
Once that happened, rural king took 99.5% of my business from TSC.
I buy very little from them now.
If I look at my average expenditures in the "farm and fleet" stores, it's roughly 20k annually.
(RK has a gun barn and good prices on freedom seeds.)
Looks like I don't have to step foot into TSC for any reason whatsoever.
Besides look at these prices.......
mistaken1
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I do not buy anything from cramazon.
mistaken1
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Some do it to avoid mob 'justice' and some do it for the koolaid.
I love how that worked out for Target. They lived up to their name during the riots and then some.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
I think some of the mutant-looking transexuals would get laughed out of a rural TS.
NoDandy
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I will just drive a little further to Rural King.
The companies that support the lqbtqxyz///*** nonsense should feel the pain at the register. Then the stockholders should fire all of the board of directors. The new board should go through the company like head hunters, and fire everybody that was involved in supporting that BS !!!
The companies that support the lqbtqxyz///*** nonsense should feel the pain at the register. Then the stockholders should fire all of the board of directors. The new board should go through the company like head hunters, and fire everybody that was involved in supporting that BS !!!
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
I will just drive a little further to Rural King.
The companies that support the lqbtqxyz///*** nonsense should feel the pain at the register. Then the stockholders should fire all of the board of directors. The new board should go through the company like head hunters, and fire everybody that was involved in supporting that BS !!!
Which wouldn't happen. They'd dump several dozen cashiers before turning on the C-suite.
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
unquestionably quite the truth . . . One of the things very few Christians bother to do is check to see where their teiths are going . . . when your church donates to specific requests for help - or to the various charities it supports do you know what those monies are used for and what that particular charity stands for? There are lots of things beyond the “building fund” . . . Any time we’re asked to contribute to either an individual OR a new organization there are questions asked
NoDandy
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That could be true of some of them. With questionable results.
It is also possible that many corps have become infested with " like minds ", and are being pro active for " the struggle , the cause" .
The boards of directors of those major corps should pay more attention to the companies they are supposed to be overseeing !!
If not, the stockholders should fire a bunch of them !!!
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NoDandy
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Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
Jesus Himself said that when you do alms, do them so your left hand doesn't know what your right hand is doing.
He never called for background checks on everyone you do alms to.
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
so then - we can safely assume you’d feel comfortable supporting a charity or an organization that was OK with child porn, had a history of sexual abuse in its closet that went unpunished (I.e. the perpetrator was allowed to remain and your tithes went to pay his salary) or felt a portion of the funds your organization supported it with should be used in a clean needle program for habitual drug users?
mistaken1
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That could be true of some of them. With questionable results.
It is also possible that many corps have become infested with " like minds ", and are being pro active for " the struggle , the cause" .
The boards of directors of those major corps should pay more attention to the companies they are supposed to be overseeing !!
If not, the stockholders should fire a bunch of them !!!
Board members and interlocking directorates drunk on the woke koolaid issuing orders that the woke zealots within the rank and file are happy to enforce with a vengeance.
NoDandy
Has No Life - Lives on TB
C-suite. = ??
patriotgal
Veteran Member
I am not cutting off my nose to spite my face. Nor am I driving 3 hrs in one direction for the little shopping I do. I know for a fact that some of the business owners in both Mountain Home and West Plains are beyond shady. I buy what I need at the best price. I shop Amazon. I watch Netflix on occasion. God is more than able to funnel my money where He intends for it to go.
I have friends who are gay. I have friends who don't worship God like I do. They are solid friends. God is their judge. Not me. They get exposed to him cuz He is a big part of my life.
Right now, our daily lives are so chaotic we just want to survive. I shop online at midnight. I don't have time to pick and choose. I don't have the luxury of removing myself and staying home, away from the world. I have "christian" friends who are wringing their hands in fear and lapping up every doom warning that makes the news. Life is too short for that sh*t.
I live my life each day the best that I can cuz I may not get another day. I pray for everyone but I don't have the time or energy to sort out all their corporate souls. /rant off
I have friends who are gay. I have friends who don't worship God like I do. They are solid friends. God is their judge. Not me. They get exposed to him cuz He is a big part of my life.
Right now, our daily lives are so chaotic we just want to survive. I shop online at midnight. I don't have time to pick and choose. I don't have the luxury of removing myself and staying home, away from the world. I have "christian" friends who are wringing their hands in fear and lapping up every doom warning that makes the news. Life is too short for that sh*t.
I live my life each day the best that I can cuz I may not get another day. I pray for everyone but I don't have the time or energy to sort out all their corporate souls. /rant off
Dobbin
Faithful Steed
Tractor Supply seems to support ESG goals.
corporate.tractorsupply.com
See also their "Climate Change" broadsheet at https://s23.q4cdn.com/539497486/files/doc_downloads/2021/10/TSCO-ESG-Fact-Sheet-Final-9.23.21.pdf
Methinks they are "very woke" - in a self-interested sort of way. One imagines it's hard to get financing, business relationship, government tolerance without "woke."
Face it. Government makes your life difficult if you don't at least "appear to bend the knee."
And NO WHERE are social goals part of the Constitution.
Otherwise known as "governmental over-reach."
Dobbin
Tractor Supply Company - Stewards of Life Out Here
See also their "Climate Change" broadsheet at https://s23.q4cdn.com/539497486/files/doc_downloads/2021/10/TSCO-ESG-Fact-Sheet-Final-9.23.21.pdf
Methinks they are "very woke" - in a self-interested sort of way. One imagines it's hard to get financing, business relationship, government tolerance without "woke."
Face it. Government makes your life difficult if you don't at least "appear to bend the knee."
And NO WHERE are social goals part of the Constitution.
Otherwise known as "governmental over-reach."
Dobbin
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Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
The few I used to know were too broke to have a pet.
NoDandy
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OK, I thought so but was not sure. I am not big on such, I prefer to see thought fully expressed.
But thanks for the reply. If stock values drop, those guys will get turned on. Maybe the stocks won't drop. Who knows ?
They won't drop unless they start holding drag shows for pets.
Quite honestly, I figure EVERY corporation is woke these days... as Dobbin astutely notes above. As l9ng as they don't actively promote it, I'll buy what I need wherever I get the best deal for quality. I know a couple of TS managers and several employees... they aren't woke, and never will be.
Summerthyme
nomifyle
TB Fanatic
I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I first walked into a Tractor Supply. The only farm store I'd ever been in was Big Red's in Yakama, WA. And that was only once. Since then I've been in Farm and Fleet in Illinois, and Rural King. But here in Louisiana TS was all that was available to me, I lived in the New Orleans area, and the same where I live now. But there is a local farm type store about 50 miles away where DH buys his feed at a decent price. So we go there.
Back then I lived in the city and as I got older I wanted to live in the woods. God saw fit for me to ultimately live that dream. I can't see that I would ever go back.
Back then I lived in the city and as I got older I wanted to live in the woods. God saw fit for me to ultimately live that dream. I can't see that I would ever go back.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
C-Suite: CEO, CFO, CTO, etc. Anything with a "Chief" in its title is generally referred to as "C-Suite".
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
Charming.
I'll commit a faux pas and answer your ingenuous question with a question. What if the monsters you described ran a soup kitchen and fed the hungry? Would we be wrong to support the care and feeding of the hungry while they did repugnant things on the side. That might be a better expression instead of going for an example so ludicrous no one could support it.
Border Collie Dad
Flat Earther
I don't think there were a lot of organizations in Jesus' time.
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
black -
its not an ingenuous question at all.
very simply put - its a bit disquieting when anyone takes ONE SENTENCE out of an ENTIRE BOOK and use it to suggest that checking to be sure the organization(s) you (and your church) choose to support are in line with the same biblical principles you yourselves espouse is somehow "against what Jesus said". I've been sitting under an independent fundamental baptist preacher for nearly 30 years and EVEN I am not that narrow in interpretation.
as BCD states:
so the terminology "giving alms" is quite likely implying the instance where one individual is giving directly to another- and doing so at a time when the individual receiving that help is himself very likely known to the giver. clearly not universally true - but likely.
do you honestly not recognize the intent of this is simply to be sure you (as in "group") are not furthering evil? isn't that pretty close to what you said above?
lets address the "monsters" as you call them via REAL LIFE EXAMPLE right here at home. there was a charity our church (and several other local churches) supported in the mountains - a "boys home". it was discovered after supporting them - and doing so for a number of years, that there was an individual in the employ of this group home - a relative of one of the principals in the organization that had been abusing some of these kids. there had been several "incidents" of sexual abuse that had gone unreported to authorities. in the main these incidents had gone unreported because these kids were castaways without someone to standup for them and those who questioned the "allegations" were belittled and criticized for questioning the "overall good works" of the organization. the long and short of it was that there was KNOWN inappropriate conduct occurring and WE were supporting it. we and several other churches found that unacceptable and STOPPED supporting the home with our donations.
lets face it - there are MONSTERS lurking about everyplace we'd care to look today. there's a thread on the board right now regarding one that supports kiddi porn and another that supports "assisted suicide". the catholic church lost HUGE numbers of its followers given its refusal to prosecute pedophile priests - or even to condemn them at all.
I've come to realize the difficulty you and I seem to have agreeing on things from time to time are rooted in a tendency to make blanket and seemingly all inclusive statements made from a position of a very small segment of an incredibly large work - often seemingly at the exclusion of the remainder of it. to be completely honest its difficult for me to rationalize that perspective.
I'm interested in what you have to say about it. having no direct knowledge of the events surrounding the example I gave above, I honestly believe you misinterpreted the intent of the initial post (#20)
ETA: as regards post 20 above - I do need to state that UNTIL that real life example concerning the boys home occurred for us personally it had NEVER DAWNED ON ME the importance of actually bothering to "check" what "soil" the children of my pennies were being sown to. I can tell you that I do so now with great regularity
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hiwall
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Example:
I detest Amazon. I do not buy from Amazon. But I have given Amazon millions of dollars.
How? My stories are sold on Amazon. I make thousands and they make millions.
I could remove my stories but who does that hurt? Me.
There is nothing you can do. Boycotting usually only hurts the individuals.
I detest Amazon. I do not buy from Amazon. But I have given Amazon millions of dollars.
How? My stories are sold on Amazon. I make thousands and they make millions.
I could remove my stories but who does that hurt? Me.
There is nothing you can do. Boycotting usually only hurts the individuals.
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
I do clearly get that hi - I also understand that it gives me the opportunity to stand on my principles - for better or for worse. absolutes in most things are problematic but so is perpetually giving up ground. its whats brought us as a society to where we are today.